 Alright, I'm about to take a bite into this Chicago dog, but before I do that, I'm here in Chicago testing out the Verizon 5G network with the LG V50 right here. I'm going to walk around, do some testing, check out the device, as well as experience what Verizon has to offer with 5G. But before that, look, I'm hungry, I'm just going to bite in, okay? So 5G and the V50. That was my experience. First of all, before I continue, I want to just let you know and thank LG for flying me out there to check out Verizon 5G's network. Now, when they reached out to me and said, hey, do you want to go to Chicago, see what 5G's like with the V50, I'm like, yeah, sure, sure. And this was a good test for me to see how the V50 handles as well. Now, Chicago is a lovely city. I've got to tell you, it's a beautiful place. I wish I stayed longer. I'm sorry I didn't get to see Tim Schofield. I spent literally a day testing, running around the city, looking at different places. I love the trains everywhere. It's a beautiful place. But, you know, I was there to check out 5G and all these 5G nodes around the city and the nodes themselves are, they're not that big. They hang on like lamppost and, you know, things around the city where you've seen other modules before in the past were like 4G and 4G LTE. So it's easily upgradable. That's the best thing about the millimeter wave additions that they have here. And it's really, really nice in terms of just functionality. You can get 5G everywhere. But I wanted to see how that experience was with the V50. The V50 comes with a Snapdragon 855. It's 5G capable, which means there is no variant. It's not like any other manufacturers. There's no V50 5G. There's just the V50. I like that. I don't have to decide if I want to just wait or not wait. Look, I can get the V50. It has all that. It's got a triple camera setup. We'll talk about that a little bit later. You've got a 4,000mAh battery, which is key because, you know, 5G, of course, is going to take more battery energy from you. But what was my experiences? And I'm going to show you some of the experiences I had. The first one was walking up to a module doing a test and then walking down and seeing how well when I walk away from it. Because millimeter wave is going to be cross sectional within streets and things like that. So let's take a look. All right, so we're down in Chicago looking for 5G modules. And boom, there's one right here. So you guys can see that. I'm going to zoom in a little closer. And yeah, so that's the 5G antenna. Now, the misconception is that, you know what? You have to stay in one place. But before we do that, let's run a test here and then keep walking and see how that goes. So I'm going to pull out my V50 right here. OK. You guys can see that. Boom. Go to speed test. Now excuse me as I flip the camera around. But you know, it's OK. And boom. Here we go. Let's run a speed test on that. All right, it keeps going up, keeps going up, keeps going up. It's not bad. 820. So we're close to the tower right here. Upload speeds are going to be closer to about 15, I'm hoping. It's about 20-something right now. Cool. All right, so let's walk down. Let's do this. It's going to be a little shaky. But we're going to walk away from that. And we're going to just keep walking down. And we'll see how this actually works. So we can do a walk-in speed test. We're going to hit this again. Focus. Boom. Now we're walking away from the tower. So this is also walking away from the tower. And look at the speeds. It's still going. All right, that's 771. That's not bad. It's pretty good. And 19. The fun thing is our tower is now all the way back there. OK, so that experience showed something quite clear. Speeds are fast. First of all, I mean, I was doing between 700 to about 1.2 gigabytes. And I apologized to 1.2 gigabytes. I didn't record it because I kind of just tapped. And I was like, oh, snap. And then I just never got that again. But I was able to get those speeds. I love it to walk away. And that was the key thing. So I could walk around. And the idea with millimeter wave setup is that you just walk around the city using your device. You should be able to jump in and out and use what you want to use fast. And that was pretty cool. So the next area I went to in the city, again, like I said, Chicago, is a beautiful city. I saw this cafe. And I was like, oh, let me do some gaming, some game streaming. I mean, off the device. I was going to use Shadow. And look, this really just kind of messed up my video here a little bit because it took me an hour plus just to try to set it up. And I was not able to set it up on my mobile device. So that just didn't do me any good. But you can imagine you tethering to your laptop to do that. But I went to this cafe. And I said, look, let me do some tests here. But also, let me see how well this will work if I am not in direct line of sight. If something is blocking it because we've all had millimeter wave does not go through objects. It bounces off. So let's take a look at what kind of speeds and how that actually works. So one of the biggest conceptions about millimeter wave 5G is that it's got to be line of sight. So that's our tower right there. And we've got some leaves. And we're going to be behind this. So theoretically, we shouldn't get a good signal. An average getting about 700 here. I'm going to hit Go. And let's see what we're getting. So it's about 7-something. So even though this is basically being blocked by the flower bed here, I'm getting about 825 for download speeds. Uploads are still based on 4G LTE. So this is what you would expect. But the reason why you still get those speeds is not because it's blocked. It's because it bounces off. So it's bouncing off that wall right here to the phone. So it doesn't have to be directly in line of sight. You can actually have different ways of getting these kinds of speeds. Again, really good speeds. So it's all because of something called beamforming, which allows the beams to redirect and direct back from the antenna to your device. So you don't have to be in line of sight because there's so many things that are going to be blocking it. And it's funny because the rep is like, hey, yeah, this area, there's a tree that's really covering the antenna. And I got one of my highest, that's where actually the highest speed and one of my highest speeds in that area. So beamforming really worked well. And I liked that there were the impediments to what we thought of with millimeter wave actually has been circumvented because of some of these technologies. Now you're saying, okay, Thundee, that's great, right? I get it, but what about some practical use for me? I give you one that we all know. You're going to catch a flight, you're running late, you skip through the line and everything, and you're like, oh man, I have nothing to watch. I'm doing 10 hours and there's no Wi-Fi because I'm taking a flight to Hawaii. I've done that, I know. And I did it with the Locker. But you're like, okay, I want to download something. You go to the Netflix, you hit download, and it's like, ah, ah, ah, ah, and then they're like, okay, but can you see it built and you don't have a movie? Well, with 5G, and imagine that, of course, at the airport or even you're catching a train, you may be taking a subway. I was able to do this in 30 seconds. Again, the ability to walk down and hit download and get that experience, you just have to take a look. Now this is a whole movie. Here's a two-hour movie. I am mother, about to catch a flight soon, so it should take me about 20 seconds, right? Let's see. Ah, okay, it's moving. There we go. So imagine you walk into the gates, about to check in, get into that flight, it's moving. All right, there you go, about 25 seconds. Give or take. Pretty nice. Yeah, it's great. It's great to have that kind of experience for 5G. Being able to download your shows or movies, a whole catalog, and get it down in there within seconds is what matters. Not a five or 10 minute download. I don't have that. I was 30 seconds for that. That was it, done. That's what I like, and that's what gave me a lot of hope here. Now, with testing the 5G network in Chicago, Verizon, with the V50, my battery life was pretty good. I was running tests throughout the whole day, and I would say I basically burned through hard, and it lasted about five to six hours. Now, on the regular use, I was able to get this device to last me pretty much the whole day. Now, one of the things that Verizon, and also what LG also stated is that, look, the way 5G works on the network is that when you're using data, that's when actually it switches over to the 5G chipset. So it's not basically burning and just using all your battery life because it's on 5G. It's only when it actually needs it, and that's how it works to keep things really efficient with this device. Now, you saw speeds where the downloads were really high, the uploads were about maybe 70 or 80, and max. Now, Verizon has said that, look, that's on 4G, uploads will switch to 5G, and they actually just did that recently in Providence. So if you're in Providence, Rhode Island, go check out those speeds. Let me know what you think, and what you're getting with the uploads and downloads. If you have a 5G device, because you can pick up a V50 right now to do that. And I wanna put this call out to all everyone who's in a 5G area right now, go check it out. If you have a 5G device, check it out, or go to a Verizon store, pick up the V50 in the store, check out the speeds, and you can get to there. Because at least, just to give you an idea of what it is, because I lived through the 4G transition, and it was bad. This has really impressed me that within a month, I've seen speeds increase from what people initially announced or what I was getting. I was getting 700 to about one gigabit per second. That's really good. I like that, in terms of download speeds. So once those uploads speeds kick in as well, I think it will be a great experience altogether. Now, the V50 itself is a really good device. It's got a large display, it's got a notch, hopefully LG moves away from that. That's just something I don't like. But this device is very well capable. You've got a triple camera setup that gives you some really good photos. Selfies actually turned out pretty well. It took some really nice photos there. The selfies also, the rear camera, the wide camera is nice. The telephoto is good. The main camera sensor also does a good job. Low light setting photos are also good. So you get a, I would say a balanced approach with this device. Now, 855 processor, your gaming is going to be top-notch. And this thing runs pretty cool. 30, about 36 degrees Celsius. So playing games like PUBG and watching me just do a terrible job. It does a fantastic. The gaming on here is really, really nice. Speaker is also decently loud at 101.6 decibels, with of course the song that we used to test. So you have that there. The display looks really good in sharp environments as well. So you've got a nice display. Plus, it's got a headphone jack with the best DAC possible. Can drive things like my bare dynamic DT 1990 Pro. Those require quite a bit to drive them well. And it does a good job. I love the fact that you can do that on the V15, nor the smartphone jack. There's a lot to this smartphone. You know, you combine the fact that it's got everything you want in a smartphone. Generally, there's some things yet that definitely could be improved that not just go away. But you also got 5G and you'll have to pick and decide what variant you're looking for. Plus, you can go up to two terabytes of storage microSD card as well. But that was my experience guys. Hopefully you enjoyed it. And hopefully, if you're in the 5G area, let me know what you're getting for speeds if you have a 5G device. I wanna know, I wanna see what that experience is because I wanna track that as well as we move forward because if you're picking up something like the V50, you wanna know that next year, the after, you're already in 5G. Like you're already in 5G but you can handle 4G. And when 5G fully takes over, as they say in 2023 in terms of devices, then you're good. Even if you decide to keep your V50 that long. Because not everybody's gonna upgrade every year. But thank you very much guys. 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